Activity time: 25 minutes Materials for Activity Newsprint, markers, and tape Handout 1, White Privilege Description of Activity Invite participants to form groups of three to seven people....

Activity time: 15 minutes Materials for Activity Handout 1, White Privilege Description of Activity Lead a discussion about the concepts in Handout 1 and any insights that arose from the triad sharing. This should be a short discussion that gets a lot of ideas into the room....

Activity time: 20 minutes Materials for Activity Handout 1, White Privilege Newsprint, markers, and tape Preparation for Activity Make copies of Handout 1. Write on newsprint, and post: What is my response to the handout?...

Activity time: 15 minutes Materials for Activity Newsprint, markers, and tape Description of Activity Invite participants to brainstorm a list of the advantages (e.g., benefits, perks, free passes, and so on) that people in each of the following groups enjoy....

Take a few moments right after the workshop to ask each other: What went well? What didn't? Why? What do you think was the best moment of the workshop? Why? Did anything surprise you? Do we need to make changes in the way we work together?

Activity time: 10 minutes Materials for Activity Lined paper and pens/pencils Taking It Home Preparation for Activity Write on newsprint, and post: What ideas were most interesting or challenging to you? What powerful ideas, concerns, or puzzlements are you holding as a result of this session?...

Activity time: 20 minutes Materials for Activity Worship table or designated space Chalice, candle, and lighter or LED/battery-operated candle Leader Resource 1, Black Pioneers in a White Denomination (Excerpt) Workshop 4, Handout 1, Racism and Spiritual Death in the United States of America...

Materials for Activity Sign-in sheet and pen or pencil Name tags for participants (durable or single-use) and bold markers Optional: Music and player Optional: Snacks and beverages Preparation for Activity Arrange chairs in a circle and set out name tags and markers on a table....

I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken away from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity. — Nelson Mandela Take a few minutes before leading this workshop to consider how unearned...

Activity Minutes Welcoming and Entering 0 Opening 20 Activity 1: Considering Privilege and Advantage 15 Activity 2: Introducing White Privilege 20 Activity 3: Large Group Discussion 15 Activity 4: Digging Deeper into White Privilege 25 Activity 5: Large Group Discussion 15 Closing 10...

I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed. — Nelson Mandela This workshop and Workshop 6 introduce "White privilege," the idea that there exists a system of racial preferences that are automatically awarded to people who identify as...

Suzanne Pharr, from the Foreword to Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation, by Eli Clare (Cambridge, MA: South End Press Collective, 1999).[Talking about multiple identities] "brings me back to those intense feelings of ambivalence, ambiguity, and isolation that I felt in my 20s...

This sermon was delivered at the Unitarian Universalist Society: East (Manchester, Connecticut) on January 15, 2006. Used with permission. When you were born—if you were born in the United States—and if someone filled out a birth certificate on your behalf, in order to fill out that birth...

Activity time: 20 minutes Description of Activity Lead a large group discussion with these questions: What patterns and/or titles did you hear in the stories that were told? How and why was this exercise difficult? Easy?...

Activity time: 55 minutes Materials for Activity Participants' "other" identity narratives or compositions Preparation for Activity Write these questions on newsprint, and post (if all groups are in the same room), or create a handout for each group: How was the experience of that person differen...

Activity time: 25 minutes Materials for Activity Workshop 2, Leader Resource 2, Serial Testimony Protocol Newsprint, markers, and tape Preparation for Activity Review Workshop 2, Leader Resource 2. Write on newsprint, and post: What are your individual concerns about creating a...

Take a few moments right after the workshop to ask each other: What went well? What didn't? Why? What do you think was the best moment of the workshop? Why? Did anything surprise you? Do we need to make changes in the way we work together?

Activity time: 10 minutes Materials for Activity Lined paper and pens/pencils Taking It Home A copy of Singing the Living Tradition, the Unitarian Universalist hymnbook Handout 1, Racism and Spiritual Death in the United States of America Preparation for Activity Write on newsprint, and post: Wha...

Activity time: 10 minutes Materials for Activity Worship table or designated space Chalice, candle, and lighter or LED/battery-operated candle Leader Resource 1, Multiple Identities Participant evaluations from previous workshop List of this workshop's Goals Covenant established in Workshop 1...

Materials for Activity Sign-in sheet and pen or pencil Name tags for participants (durable or single-use) and bold markers Optional: Music and player Optional: Snacks and beverages Preparation for Activity Arrange chairs in a circle and set out name tags and markers on a table....